The prime ministers of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary met in Košice, Slovakia.
24.11. 15:59•Updated 24.11. 18:04
The ratification of Finland’s and Sweden’s NATO memberships came up on the agenda at the meeting of the Central European Visegrád countries in Košice, Slovakia today.
Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán promised his colleagues that the Hungarian parliament would ratify the membership of Finland and Sweden at the beginning of next year. According to him, the government has already decided on its support.
– Hungary will certainly support the ratification. The government has already done it, and the parliament will also do it, Viktor Orbán said at the press conference.
At the Visegrád meeting, the prime ministers of Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia pressured Hungary to accept Finland’s and Sweden’s NATO membership.
Also the Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki said after the meeting that Hungary had promised to ratify the membership of Finland and Sweden within about a month.
– I asked Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to ratify Finland’s and Sweden’s NATO membership as soon as possible, Morawiecki said at the press conference.
– I was promised that the ratification will take place in the first parliamentary session of the new year, i.e. in a little over a month.
Hungarian of the parliament’s website (you will switch to another service) next year’s sessions will start on February 1. The Parliament could therefore vote on the ratification of Finland’s and Sweden’s NATO membership in just over two months.
Hungary and Turkey are the only NATO countries that have not yet ratified the membership of Finland and Sweden. Hungary has repeatedly assured that it will ratify the membership of Finland and Sweden, but has delayed the consideration of the matter in its parliament.
Source: Reuters
On November 24 at 4:08 p.m., the ratification schedule was updated and at 6:02 p.m. supplemented by Orbán’s own comments.